The Flying Sailor among 15 films shortlisted for Animated Short Film

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Montreal – The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has just announced that Wendy Tilby and Amanda Forbis’s acclaimed National Film Board of Canada (NFB) animated short The Flying Sailor is one of 15 films shortlisted for this year’s Oscar for Animated Short Film. Link to the Academy press release: bit.ly/3hLytV0 NFB productions and co-productions have garnered 76 Oscar nominations and won the big prize …

Award-winning NFB animated short The Flying Sailor coming to Sundance

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Montreal – Wendy Tilby and Amanda Forbis’s multi-award-winning animated short The Flying Sailor is headed to the 2023 Sundance Film Festival (January 19–29), as this National Film Board of Canada (NFB) production continues a stellar festival run. The latest work by the Oscar-nominated and Palme d’Or-winning duo of Tilby and Forbis, The Flying Sailor is inspired by the incredible true-life story of a man blown two kilometres through …

Annual list of TIFF celebrates best in Canadian cinema

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Montreal – Three works by National Film Board of Canada (NFB) filmmakers have been named to this year’s edition of Canada’s Top Ten—an annual list of the country’s finest short and feature-length films, announced by the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) on December 8. Nisha Pahuja’s documentary To Kill a Tiger was chosen as part of the feature film selection. The Notice Pictures/NFB co-production has already …

The New Yorker Studios presents The Flying Sailor 

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Montreal – The award-winning animated short film The Flying Sailor is available on The New Yorker’s digital channels today, November 18, as part of the magazine’s award-winning Screening Room series. A National Film Board of Canada (NFB) production, the film is the latest work by the Oscar-nominated and Palme d’Or-winning duo of Amanda Forbis and Wendy Tilby. Inspired by the incredible true-life story of a man …

NFB at 2022 Ottawa International Animation Festival

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Montreal – With a selection of six short films—four of which are in competition, including The Flying Sailor by renowned filmmakers Wendy Tilby and Amanda Forbis—and the world premiere of a feature documentary screening as a special presentation, as well as a retrospective, the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) takes pride of place at the 2022 Ottawa International Animation Festival (OIAF). The largest festival devoted …

NFB storytelling at this year’s Calgary Int’l Film Festival

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Vancouver – The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) selection at this year’s Calgary International Film Festival (CIFF) will feature audacious storytelling from around the world, across Alberta and the North. A total of five NFB films will screen at this year’s festival, with world premieres of a new feature documentary by journalist and filmmaker Michelle Shephard and a short doc by Chipewyan Prairie …